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 Christine-NYC
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| posted: 11/22/2006 at 12:49:49 PM ET
Doesn't matter to me what her connections are. lol As long as I get to hear her sing. 
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6/7/2003 | posted: 11/29/2006 at 4:12:42 PM ET
Betty Buckley and Sarah Brightman will be at the Kennedy Center Honors for Webber, according to playbill.com:
"Following the performance, Buckley will fly to Washington, DC, to be part of the annual Kennedy Center Honors Dec. 3. Buckley and Sarah Brightman will serenade honoree Andrew LLoyd Webber with the Cats anthem "Memory." "
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6/7/2003 | posted: 12/1/2006 at 5:54:43 AM ET
According to Liz Smith in today's New York Post:
"Christine Ebersole, fresh from her "Grey Gardens" triumph running on Broadway, will be there [at the Kennedy Center Honors] to do Andrew's [Lloyd Webber] big number from "Sunset Boulevard." And the 29th annual honors will resound when this talented woman offers up "As If We Never Said Goodbye." "
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6/7/2003 | posted: 12/1/2006 at 6:38:04 AM ET
And, from today's Washington Post:
"The list of presenters is super-secret, but be on the lookout for Reese Witherspoon, Jessica Simpson, George Lucas, Berry Gordy, Barbara Cook, Sarah Brightman, Barbara Walters, Ron Silver, Arthur Mitchell and Christine Ebersole."
The Reliable Source, p. C3
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My own guess: Placido Domingo, also
| Jean
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6/7/2003 | posted: 12/3/2006 at 6:06:45 PM ET
Shania Twain and Reba McEntire should be there, saw Reba's photo at the State Dept. event last night.
I doubt that Bernadette is there, since she was at that movie opening last night.
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5/3/2002 | posted: 12/4/2006 at 1:35:00 PM ET
So they made the idiotic mistake of inviting Jessica Simpson to perform. She stopped in the middle of her song and fled the stage in tears while the audience looked on dumbfounded. Gad, what is the world coming to? What on earth were they thinking when they asked someone like that to participate? I guess they'll edit that part out when it's broadcast.
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| posted: 12/4/2006 at 2:05:16 PM ET
Where did you hear that?
"I'm one star away from Dolly Parton ... and Raymond Massey is between us. I hope we don't suffocate him." Bernadette Peters receiving her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, April 24, 1987
| Jean
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6/7/2003 | posted: 12/4/2006 at 2:10:04 PM ET
It's all over the papers--it's in my Washington Post this morning, and in some of the AP, and I think USA Today reports.
How could they have used Jessica Simpson--where was Emmylou Harris, Bonnie Raitt, oh my head hurts!
from the AP:
"Simpson later had an uncomfortable moment singing "Nine to Five" as part of the tribute to Parton, finishing the song abruptly with the words "so nervous" and quickly exiting, to no applause. She was in tears when she and the other singers in the tribute came back out."
from the CBC Arts:
"Singer Jessica Simpson became a show spoiler after bungling a tribute performance of Dolly Parton's 9 to 5 at the gala for Kennedy Center honourees, including Parton, Steven Spielberg, Smokey Robinson, Zubin Mehta and Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Simpson had to rely on cue cards to belt out the song, the theme from the 1980 movie of the same name starring Parton, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin.
"Dolly, you make me so nervous I can't even sing the words right," Simpson said before leaving the stage. Parton looked displeased as Simpson exited in tears."
| moljul
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| posted: 12/4/2006 at 2:18:32 PM ET
Wow. I hadn't heard about any of it but I haven't read much news today.
Sure is a far cry from the Honors in 2003 where Bernadette had to go on cold because she had missed the entire rehearsal due to a snow and ice storm that hit the east coast. I can't imagine going on like she did but she did fine with just a little screw up that she covered well and like the professional she is, just continued on with the performance. It was a very moving performance and you could tell Carol Burnett loved it.
"I'm one star away from Dolly Parton ... and Raymond Massey is between us. I hope we don't suffocate him." Bernadette Peters receiving her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, April 24, 1987
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6/7/2003 | posted: 12/4/2006 at 2:44:19 PM ET
There is nothing like a pro...to paraphrase what is rapidly becoming my favorite performance of hers...
I think Bernadette has said that she likes the surprise of a live performance, of not knowing what will happen--she's also used to big occasions. Not to excuse Jessica Simpson, I think whoever chose her made a mistake, are they trying for that young demographic?
Oh yes, I've watched that KC Honors a few times since, and the look on Carol's face says it all!
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| posted: 12/4/2006 at 3:34:13 PM ET
I think Carol's face shows that she is genuinely touched by Bernadette being a part of her tribute but I think what really added to it was that Bernadette was in Gypsy at the time and so her appearance was a complete surprise to Carol who I'm sure just assumed Bernadette wouldn't be able to participate. I know the Honors takes place all weekend and the honorees never know anything about what their actual tribute will be but when they see friends or colleagues of their's at the festivities proceeding the actual program, they can pretty much figure out who will be a part of their tribute. Bernadette obviously wasn't there all weekend so her walking out on stage was obviously a tremendous surprise to Carol. I do love it.
And I must say that Bernadette made the most ADORABLE Charwoman ever!
"I'm one star away from Dolly Parton ... and Raymond Massey is between us. I hope we don't suffocate him." Bernadette Peters receiving her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, April 24, 1987
| Christine-NYC
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| posted: 12/5/2006 at 2:11:51 PM ET
*Cringes* Jessica Simpson.
Umm first of all, she is not even a country singer. What was anyone thinking when they asked her to participate for Dolly's tribute?
Some of these young performers today really bother me with how unprofessional they are.
I hope they leave it in the broadcast. That is one of my favorite songs; and I would hate to not see it just because that dimwit screwed it up.
Bernadette is the definition of a professional in her industry.
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| Jean
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6/7/2003 | posted: 12/5/2006 at 2:54:24 PM ET
According to today's Washington Post, she re-recorded it later. That apparently is what we'll see when it airs in December.
"It was harder to figure out what was going on with Simpson. The 26-year-old pop starlet kept one arm clutched to her midsection while singing "9 to 5." At the end, she blurted, "Dolly, you make me so nervous, I can't even sing the words right," then scuttled awkwardly off the stage.
Witnesses told us she was a wreck before she went on, weeping while the video tribute to Parton played and pacing anxiously during performances by Carrie Underwood, Kenny Rogers, Alison Krauss and Shania Twain.
"She was overcome with emotion performing the song for Dolly because she has idolized Dolly Parton her entire life and she wanted the song to be perfect," her publicist Cindi Berger said yesterday. "When it wasn't, she was upset with herself."
We didn't hear any mistakes. Said Berger: "She did."
Producer George Stevens told us, "She was very upset, so we said, 'Would you like to have another shot at it?' " Simpson then redid the song for the TV cameras (the show will air on CBS Dec. 26) once the audience had left the Opera House."
( Reliable Source page C1)
I just love my Washington Post, it's just as good as the NY Post Page Six!
| Karen
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I wonder if drugs or alcohol were involved.
Didn't they used to have only friends, colleagues, peers, or proteges performing? When did they dumb it down so that any random pseudo-celebrity of the day could be paraded before the camera? This whole thing has morphed into just another schlocky, tacky, Hollywood-style awards show. Pretty nauseating.
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